Come and Eat: A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table, Bri McKoy

Come and Eat: A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table by Bri McKoy

Print Length: 240 Pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Publication Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
ASIN: B01N3ZR4M7
ISBN-10: 0718090616
ISBN-13: 978-0718090616
File Format: EPUB

Come with your brokenness, your celebration, and your worries, but most of all come and eat.

In today’s busy and often superficial world, we all crave something deeper and truer. Maybe it’s relationships that go beyond the surface or gatherings that allow for joy and pain. Bri McKoy tells us this is within reach! All we need is a table, open hearts, and a simple invitation: come and eat.

McKoy invites us to discover how a common dining-room table can be transformed into a place where brokenness falls away to reveal peace and fellowship. Whether the table is laid with bounty or with meager offerings, whether it is surrounded by the Body of Christ or homeless, broken souls, she shows us that healing begins when we say, “Come in. I may not know you, but I know your maker. And so I offer you my heart.”

For all those who are hungry and craving more of God’s kingdom in their homes, Come and Eat offers recipes, tips, and questions to jumpstart conversation, while reminding us that fellowship in God’s love is always the most remembered, most cherished nourishment. Because when we make room for others, we make room for God, and our homes become a vibrant source of life, just as he means them to be.

Reviews
Practical tips fill McKoy’s gracious debut, an ode to food and spiritual community. McKoy, the founder of the food blog Our Savory Life and leader of the Christian mission-oriented blogging network Compassion International, expresses a deep desire to live out a Christian faith with integrity and purpose. Upbeat chapters rotate among stories, recipes, table prayers, and questions for discussion, all of which will inspire readers to bring these practices into their daily lives. This work will especially appeal to readers who are eager to make mealtime an opportunity to dig deeper into their Christian faith and to share food and faith with others. Making the table a welcoming space rather than just a platform for food is a thread that runs through anecdotes and recipes…Cheerful and big-hearted, McKoy’s book reminds readers of the power in the act of sharing food.
Funny, thought-provoking, and totally real, Bri writes in a way that makes you feel like you are sitting down in your comfiest pajamas with your oldest and dearest friend. Come and Eat inspired me in ways I never expected–I literally could not put it down. It’s a message every woman needs to hear….even (perhaps, especially) if you hate to cook!
–Ruth Soukup, New York Times bestselling author of Living Well, Spending Less and Unstuffed
In these days where everyone seems to be in such a hurry and too busy for real community and deep relationships, Bri invites us into her story of discovering the importance of fellowship found around something as simple as the dinner table. You will read the pages and be inspired to gather the people you know, and the people you have yet to really know, around your table and experience a little bit of God’s kingdom right here on Earth.

–Melanie Shankle, New York Times bestselling author and speaker

The invitation that Bri extends through Come and Eat is so equally inspiring and practical that we simply won’t see our dinner tables the same again. With honesty, insightfulness, and a call to action…Bri shows us we can make an impact right where we are, around the table.”
–Ruth Chou Simons, artist and author of GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart; founder of GraceLaced.com

Bri takes the best of life–neighbors, good food, the hope of Christ–and cooks it down into an invitation to reach for the solace of community. I’ll be holding onto Come and Eat, both for the go-to recipes and for the reminder that God’s love for me is a feast best shared with those around me.
–Shannan Martin, author of Falling Free: Rescued From the Life I Always Wanted

With every page of Come and Eat I felt as though Bri was welcoming to me to her table and we were having a fabulous meal together. Her transparency in her stories throughout this book made me feel loved and not alone in this world. This book is a breath of fresh air, breathing life into something I believe in with all my heart–sharing meals together transforms lives.
—Jamie Ivey, host of The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey podcast, author of If You Only Knew: My Unlikely, Unavoidable Story of Becoming Free